Transforming Aged Care for the Future

This article is authored by guest contributor Professor Vishaal Kishore, the Government Chair of the Cisco-RMIT Wellbeing Transformation Lab

The recent report of the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care High-quality and Safety tells us two crucial points. Initial – a thing systemic is heading on in aged treatment: the aspects of the method are not operating jointly to produce exceptional outcomes. Next – the problem is just one of respect: our method is not treating individuals the way that they should to be addressed.

Our obstacle is to uncover a way to make the Australian aged care process simultaneously more connected, and extra compassionate. And this is the place technological know-how has a very important part to enjoy – but the purpose is a elaborate one. Done suitable, engineering can be core to creating our process more respectful. Completed poorly, technologies can merely lead to earning a disrespectful procedure far more productive at currently being disrespectful.

At the Health Transformation Lab, we – along with Cisco – set out to investigate the profound position that technologies can enjoy in reorienting our aged treatment units about link and regard. But those of us who work in innovation in the care financial state know that phrases are not adequate – so we established out not just to generate about why technological know-how can remodel aged treatment, but also to reveal how. The conclude result is a thing of which we all are deeply proud – in a couple of shorter months RMIT and Cisco experienced been ready to display how engineering could be made use of to improve the expertise of folks in aged care and also free up much necessary time for staff members to aim on their core purpose: providing care.

Possibly most excitingly, these systems all exist suitable now – our undertaking is just to organize them and deploy them in new and exciting means.

In the coming months, the Health Transformation Lab is seeking to work with industry associates, providers and other people intrigued in undertaking one thing significant to boost the lives of people obtaining aged treatment solutions in a multitude of options. Dependent on our initial demonstrations I am assured that governing administration and the sector broadly will start to have an understanding of that technologies is not something to be balanced from ‘human-to-human’ care, but fairly the incredibly factor that permits it.

To master a lot more about how the collaboration with Cisco brings together study and engineering to handle crucial tips, read through our report on Transforming Aged Treatment.

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